1. Plate Boundaries

2. Plate Boundaries Examples of a divergent boundary Mid-ocean ridge:
Mid-ocean ridge:
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Rift valleys:
The Great Rift Valley (Africa: Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania)

3. Plate Boundaries Example of a divergent boundary Mid-ocean ridge:
Mid-ocean ridge:
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

4. Plate Boundaries Example of a divergent boundary Rift valleys:
Rift valleys:
The Great Rift Valley (Africa: Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania)

5. Plate Boundaries
Examples of a convergent boundary: continent-continent
Himalayan mountains

6. Plate Boundaries
Examples of a convergent boundary: continent-continent
Himalayan mountains

7. Plate Boundaries
Examples of a convergent boundary: continent-continent
Himalayan mountains

8. Plate Boundaries
Examples of a convergent boundary: continent-continent
Himalayan mountains

9. Plate Boundaries
Example of a convergent boundary: continent-ocean boundary
West coast of South America

10. Plate Boundaries
Geographic features at ocean/continent convergent boundaries
mountains
trenches
volcanoes

11. Plate Boundaries Example of a continent-ocean convergent boundary
Coast of Oregon and Washington

12. Plate Boundaries
Example of a ocean-ocean convergent boundary
Japan

13. Plate Boundaries
Geographic features at ocean/ocean convergent boundaries
trenches
volcanoes
island arcs

14. Plate Boundaries
Example of a transform boundary
Ex. San Andreas Fault